Electrolytic apparatus.



L. G. FIXEN. ELECTROLYTIC APPARATUS.

APPLICATION TILED JUNE 4, 1910.

1,026,857. Patented May 21, 1912.

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panying drawings, whereinan electrode 4. As herein shown the elec- UNITED stra'rns PATENT OFFICE.

LAURA G. FIXEN, OF

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ELECTROLYTIC APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, 1912.

Application filed Jane 4, 1910. Serial No. 564,949.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAURA G. Flxnx, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of (.ook and State of Illinois havc invented a certain new and useful Improvement in l llectrolytic .'\p-' paratns, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in electrolytic zq'iparat'us, and has for its object to provide a new and improved apparatus of this description,

The invention is illustrated in the accom- Figure l. is aside elevation ot a device en'il'iodying the invention; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the device shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on line 33 of Fig. 1.

Like nun'ie als refer to like parts throughout the several figures.

In carrying out the invention 1 provide a tank, 1, pr0vided at the ends with the electrodes 2 and 3, and near the middle with trodes 2 and 3 are negative electrodes and the electrode 4 a positive ehPetrode. These electrodes are connected in a suitable electric circuitby the wires 5, t3 and 7. Located between the electrodes are a series of plates, 8 and of carbon or the like which extend entirely across the tank, 1, and which are held in place in any desired manner, as by means of the holding pieces or cleats 10. The plates 8 and J are of less height than the depth of the tank, I, and preferably extend about half way up from the bottom of said tank, as illustrated. The plates 5) have placed on top of them glass pieces, ll, which extend pretm'ably to or ncar the. top of the tank. The tops of these glass pieces should extend above the surface of the'liquid in the tank. The plates 8 are preferably continuous across the tank so that any liquid to flow along the tank must tlow over the tops thereof. "The plates 8) are provided at; the bottom with openings 12, through which the liquid in the tank can tiow. The openings ]2 ot the alternate plates 8 are at oppqsltc sides 01: the tank, asshown lll .llig. 3,

so that the liquid will have to travel back and forth across the tank in its passage thcrcthrough.

When the tank tion with an electric current of a'eertain potential, say, for example, 110 volts, the middlc electrode, 4. is used, as illustrated. In

and passes through the openings l2 in the plates t), and passes-,over the top of the plates 8 until it reaches the ends of the tank,"

whereupon it is withdrawn through the openings '15.

I claim:

An electrolytic apparatus comprising a tank. an electrode near the middle thcrool, an electrode near each end thereoil, said latter electrodes of opposite polarity from the former electrode. a series of plates extending across the tank and located lmtween the electrode near the ccntero't'the tank and the electrodes at. the ends thereof, said. platcs extending entirely across the tank and from the bottom about halt way up the sides thereof, some of said plates being continuons and the others provided with openings, means for inscrting'thc liquid to betreatwl into said tank near the middle thereot', discharge openings near; the ends of said tank through which the nnltcrial treated may pass, said discharge openings lot-anal above the tops of said plates, and means associated with the plates, having holes theretlwough, for preventing the liquid from passing over the tops thcrcot'.

LAURA, (l. l lXllW. Witnesses:

EDWARD Nixos, ll 'naamu ll. (use is to be used in connec-- 

